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Gyas Jewelmark or Gyas Sarota Metalmark (Sarota gyas), family Riodonidae, Peru

photograph by Nick Volpe

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Anaxibia Morpho (Morpho anaxibia), family Nymphalidae, endemic to Brazil

This large butterfly has an avg. wingspan of about 5 inches (12.7 cm).

photograph by Isabel Silva

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Regal Hairstreak (Evenus regalis), family Lycaenidae, Trinidad

photographs by Supriya Endigeri-Ramlakhan

Le monde a l'envers

DavidMnr

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Le papillon

DavidMnr

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“Dancing in the Summer”

Ji Yuan

Mobile Photography Awards

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“Double”

Eric Goh

1839 Photographer of the Year Awards

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A butterfly sits on a flower at the newly opened Chrysanthemum Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir

Tauseef Mustafa

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Butterflies eat a lot of gross things.

Butterflies love a good pollinator garden. And though flowers do feed them, the insects will also devour much less appetizing meals. They’ve been known to eat blood, sweat, tears, pee, poop, and even rotting flesh.

Gary Carter

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Common blue butterflies bask in the sun on a high-altitude plain in Sarıkamış district, Kars, Turkey

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Immature birds, like this female (F.p. peregrinus) in Sweden, are rarely able to gain a territory in the wild because a surplus of adults are usually ready to fill any vacancies. However, in recent years, scientists have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of immatures (usually females) gaining territories in Scotland and Sweden, indicating many adults have been lost, most likely due to avian influenza.

Peter Grahn

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‘Having watched them over many, many years I knew where young eagles congregate in the early morning to hunt rabbits in the Flinders Ranges. A group of young eagles landed on the perches I had been watching. I could see and hear this group of youngsters over the week but it was only on the last day that my wait paid off, with the range in the background and that glorious early morning light.’

This bird is a Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), which is Australia's largest bird of prey.

Dave Wetheral

BirdLife Australia photography awards

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‘When I heard about the white-bellied sea eagle being seen on a boat trip out of Esperance on the south coast of Western Australia, I booked two-day trips aboard the boat. This boat had been feeding a dead frozen fish to wild white-bellied sea eagles for a few years. The skipper explained that I had only one chance at the shot as he only fed one fish a day per bird. On day two I was able to keep the great bird in the 600mm frame and capture the moment as it washed off some speed and plucked the bait from the water.’

Howard Loosemore

BirdLife Australia photography awards